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U.S. Sailor in Fine Shape After Rescue

Sunday, January 07, 2007 12:58:40 PM
By ROBERTO CANDIA

American sailor Ken Barnes, 47-years old from Newport Beach, left, accompanied by Chilean Navy's Adm. Edmundo Gonzalez, right, and Maritime Gov. Ivan Valenzuela, center,  arrives to a Chilean Navy airbase in Punta Arenas, Chile, Sunday, Jan. 7, 2007.  Barnes, whose round-the-world journey was frustrated by a yacht-destroying storm that left him adrift for three days more than 800 kilometers (500 miles) from the Chilean coast, west of the Straits of Magellan, was rescued last Friday by a fishing trawler, backed by Chilean navy aircraft. (AP Photo/ Roberto Candia)PUNTA ARENAS, Chile (AP) - An American whose round-the-world journey was frustrated by a yacht-destroying storm reached land on Sunday, saying he did not regret attempting to sail solo nonstop around the globe.

Looking relaxed and calm in a cloth jacket and jeans, Ken Barnes said he spent little time thinking about his situation when a storm left him adrift for three days more than 500 miles west of the southern tip of the Chilean coast.

"I was kind of busy," he said.


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